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Pectinina
A view of a live scallop
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Suborder: Pectinina
Superfamilies

Pectinoidea

Anomioidea

Pectinina is a taxonomic grouping of saltwater clams, a suborder within the order Pectinida of marine bivalve molluscs. [1]

References

  1. ^ Waller, T. R.; Yochelson, E. L. (1978). "Morphology, Morphoclines and a New Classification of the Pteriomorphia (Mollusca: Bivalvia) [and Discussion]". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 284 (1001): 345–365. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1978.0072. ISSN  0080-4622. JSTOR  2418165.